Multiple Universal Printers?

[jaguiar]

Hi,

I have a published application in which users must register patient data in a hospital counter. For every patient, several print jobs are created; one for an A5 page for a receipt, another for an A4 page for an internal document, and another for barcode labels on a Zebra label printer.

I'm using standard TS printer redirection, but it has several problems - the first one being that mapped printers take a long time to become available after logon.

I'd like to give Universal Printing a try, but I'm not sure if it will be practical - it's really cumbersome for users having to select 3 different printers for each patient. And, of course, I can't select a specific printer on the 2X client.

The perfect solution, I suppose, would be to have several 2X Universal Printers on the server, and to be able to redirect each one to a specific printer on the 2X client configuration. I know this isn't possible, but you get the general idea; for certain kinds of users, selecting a printer in a dialog box can be a challenge.

Any suggestions on how I could use the 2X universal printer in such a scenario? And, by the way... is there any way to delay application start until all TS printer mapping is done?
Thanks!

 

[zippo]

Are the printers shared by the users and on the same network as the server? If this is so why not share the printer (i.e. use SMB)
If this is not the case please forward your request to 2x support for evaluation

 

[revguy]

We have the same issue in ApplicationServer 9.0. Our workstations have multiple types of printers (receipt, letter, label) that are not on the same network as the terminal server. Historically we used a tool called Print-IT which would map each workstation printer to a printer on the terminal server. This allowed the application on the terminal server to choose the workstation printer without the user taking additional steps.

Is there a way to have multiple universal printers?

Can the application on the server control which client printer the document is printed on?

 

[zippo]

At the moment one one printer is used at a time, you need to change the printer on the client side which is used for universal printing.

A new system will be available soon, where multiple printer will be available.

Pleasae wathc out for updates